Places, museums, monuments : 133
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Place, museum or monumentToledo Museum of Art
Edward Libbey, the Boston glass-maker, relocated his business to Toledobecause there was good sand available for making glass, cheap natural gas, and the location strategic to railroad and shipping. Libbey and his wife Florence Scott were the inspiration behind the birth of this museum of art at the turn of the century. Their separate endowments […]
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Place, museum or monumentArcole
The city of Arcole is situated in the middle of swampland, near the confluence of the Adige and the Alpone about twenty kilometres southeast of Verona. It is famous for the three-day battle that took place there during the first Italian campaign, on 15, 16, and 17 November, 1796. In order to prevent the Austrian […]
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Place, museum or monumentRivoli
Rivoli Veronese, a commune in the province of Verona of about 2000 inhabitants, stretches along the right bank of the river Adige a few miles east of Lake Garda. It sits in a landscape of precipices framed by Mont Baldo on the north and dam of the Adige. In this magnificent setting on January 14, […]
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Place, museum or monumentLittle Malmaison
The Petit Malmaison (Little Malmaison) is a private and listed historicalmonument, commissioned in 1803 by the Empress Josephine, who desired to have a space on the Malmaison estate reserved for her passion, botany. Initially, she called on the landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel (1728-1810). But he was soon to be replaced by Jean Thomas Thibault(1757-1826) and […]
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Place, museum or monumentBiarritz Historical Museum
Located in a former Anglican church, the Biarritz Historical Museum was set up in 1986 by the Association of Friends of Old Biarritz as a concrete expression of their intention to revive interest in the city's past. The porch houses a memorial to the English who fell in the Napoleonic wars, particularly in the battles which […]
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Place, museum or monumentAusterlitz
Austerlitz entered history following the battle that was fought there on 2nd December, 1805, between the French army led by Napoleon I and the Russian and Austrian coalition led by the Austrian Emperor Francis I and Tsar Alexander I. This battle, which involved three emperors, ended in a victory for Napoleon, with the signing of […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseo Napoleonico – Rome
The Museo Napoleonico in Rome presents the collections of Count Giuseppe Primoli, the great-grandson of Joseph and of Lucien Bonaparte. Born in 1851 to Princess Charlotte Bonaparte and Count Primoli di Foglia, Giuseppe Primoli belonged to the Roman branch of the imperial family. He spent most of his youth in Paris, at Napoleon III's court […]
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Place, museum or monumentGarnier Opera House
On 29th September, 1860, Napoleon III ordered the construction of a new opera house to replace the one in rue Le Peletier, a temporary building both too narrow and situated in a congested area of Paris. A contest in which 171 applicants competed was launched in December. It was won by a young architect still unknown […]
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Place, museum or monumentIsland of St Helena
A small island lost in the middle of the south Atlantic Ocean, St Helena was chosen by the British government as place to exile the deposed Emperor. “The island of St Helena is the ideal place to lock away such a character. In such a place, so far away, no scheming of any kind will […]
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Place, museum or monumentDosne-Thiers Foundation
The Parisian town mansion which houses Dosne-Thiers Foundation was built in Place Saint-George by a stockbroker whose daughter, Elise Dosne married the politician Louis-Adolphe Thiers. From 1833 onwards, Elise and Louis Adolphe entertained many celebrities of the time and put together an important collection of books and works of art. The private mansion was burnt down […]